Organization

Singer

Tenor

Andrew Morstein

1. Officer

Baritone

Timothy Connor

2. Officer

Stage director

Georg Zlabinger

Conductor

Michael Zlabinger

Lighting designer

Franz Tscheck

Set designer

Martin Zlabinger

Costume designer

Repetiteur

Anna Sushon

Bass

Johannes Schwendinger

3. Officer

MusikTheater an der Wien

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Wiener KammerOrchester

English

The Lighthouse

Vienna

Austria

Wiener Kammeroper

The Lighthouse Davies,PM

Public

German

Approved

Kammeroper

A strange incident is under judicial investigation: When a supply ship reached a lonely lighthouse, the three officers found the lighthouse abandoned except for a flock of rats. There was no trace of the three lighthouse keepers. Despite the stormy weather, there was no sign of a fight or a flood, everything looked as if the three had only left the tower for a moment: the table was set, dinner was ready. In court, the three officers are now suspected of having something to do with the guards' disappearance. Your statements do not shed light on the circumstances, everything just becomes more mysterious, as they perceived the situation differently, but unanimously describe the atmosphere as spooky. The negotiation becomes a vision of the events: the three guards, those who had lived there in solitude for months were very different: Arthur was evidently a self-righteous religious zealot, while Blazes and Sandy had morally dubious pasts. But all three hid on the island from their past. Playing cards was her only pastime. One evening the atmosphere became aggressive. They tried to calm themselves down by each singing a song that meant something to them - it soon turned out that it was a glimpse into their own fate: Blazes told how he slew an old woman for her money, his father became for it hanged. He didn't seem to have any remorse. A fateful love story was reflected in Sandy's song and Arthur gave free rein to his obsessive fantasies about the golden calf and the killing around it. With the rising fog, the ghosts of the past crawled out of the sea and grabbed the three of them until they - now completely insane - saw a punishing beast with shining eyes emerge from the storm that wanted to fetch them. The judicial investigation ends with an acquittal for the three officers. The fate of the guards remains an unexplained accident. One learns that no new guards have been found for this lighthouse and that everything is now automated there. until they - now completely insane - saw a punishing beast with shining eyes emerge from the storm that wanted to fetch them. The judicial investigation ends with an acquittal for the three officers. The fate of the guards remains an unexplained accident. One learns that no new guards have been found for this lighthouse and that everything is now automated there. until they - now completely insane - saw a punishing beast with shining eyes emerge from the storm that wanted to fetch them. The judicial investigation ends with an acquittal for the three officers. The fate of the guards remains an unexplained accident. One learns that no new guards have been found for this lighthouse and that everything is now automated there.

The Lighthouse by Davies, From (2021/2021), Directed by Georg Zlabinger,, Conductor Michael Zlabinger, Kammeroper, Vienna, Austria

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